Customer Perspectives

Jeffrey Birnbaum, Morgan Stanley:

"Linux is a large component of our five-year computing strategy," says Jeffrey Birnbaum, Morgan Stanley's global head of enterprise computing for the Institutional Securities business. "We are investing and deploying it heavily in all areas of our Institutional Securities business. It's currently being used for mission-critical applications in our Equity and Fixed Income Divisions. Today, we have 400 Linux boxes in production and another 300 in the pipeline."
-Waters Magazine, November 8, 2002

Bridget O'Conner, CTO, Lehman Brothers:

"Linux is being considered for either new projects or projects that eat computing cycles," says Bridget O'Conner, Lehman Brothers CTO. "If we need to order a multiple-CPU machine, [the application] might be a candidate for porting."
-Waters Magazine, November 8, 2002